Cambridge 22-23 May: Bilingual Discourse and Cross-Cultural Fertilisation: Tamil and Sanskrit in Mediaeval India
Whitney Cox
wc3 at SOAS.AC.UK
Fri May 15 20:28:27 UTC 2009
Dear colleagues,
On behalf of Vincenzo Vergiani and myself, I'd like to cordially
invite any and all of you who maybe in SE England next week to attend
the workshop we are jointly convening, Bilingual Discourse and
Cross-Cultural Fertilisation: Tamil and Sanskrit in Mediaeval India.
The workshop website can be found at the following URL, and I attach a
schedule of presentations below,
http://www.ames.cam.ac.uk/news_events/sanskrit-tamil-mediaeval-india.htm
All the best,
Whitney Cox
Friday 22 May:
9:00-9:30 Coffee, welcoming and opening remarks
Session 1 (Dominic GOODALL, chair)
9:30-10:00 Eva WILDEN “Ten Stages of Love (daśa kāmāvasthāḥ) and Eight Types
of Marriage (aṣṭavivāha) in the Tolkāppiyam”
10:00-10:30 Whitney COX “Meyppāṭu and naṭavil nilai in Iampūraṇar: from
source-criticism to intellectual history”
10:30-11:00 Hermann TIEKEN “Early Tamil poetics between Nāṭyaśāstra and
Rāgamālā”
11:00-11:45 Discussion
Lunch (12:00-1:30)
Session 2 (Vincenzo VERGIANI, chair)
1:30-2:00 Takanobu TAKAHASHI “Is clearing or plowing equal to killing? Tamil
culture and the spread of Jainism in Tamilnadu”
2:00-2:30 K. Nachimuthu “Negotiating Tamil-Sanskrit Contacts: Engagements by
Tamil Grammarians”
2:30-3:00 Charlotte SCHMID (read by Dominic GOODALL) “The contribution of Tamil
literature to Kṣṇa’s figure in Sanskrit texts: the case of the kaṉṟu
in Cilappatikāram 17”
3:00-3:30 Discussion
Coffee (3:30-4:00)
Session 3 (Daud ALI, chair)
4:00-4:30 Timothy LUBIN “Legal Diglossia in Medieval Tamilnadu”
4:30-5:00 Emmanuel FRANCIS “The Praise of the King in Tamil and Sanskrit during
the Pallava Period”
5:00-5:30 Leslie ORR “Words for Worship: Tamil and Sanskrit in Medieval Temple
Inscriptions”
5:30-6:15 Discussion
Saturday 23 May
Coffee (9:00-9:30 )
Session 4 (Eivind KAHRS, chair)
9:30-10:00 Vincenzo VERGIANI “The adoption of Bhartṛhari’s classification of
karman in Cēṉāvaraiyar’s commentary on the Tolkāppiyam”
10:00-10:30 Jean-Luc CHEVILLARD “The ṣaṭ pratyaya in Vīracōḻiyam and
Yāpparuṅkalavirutti and their sources: a tentative chronology”
10:30-11:00 V. S. RAJAM “Mapping and Integrating Traditions Through Poetry and
Grammar”
11:00-11:45 Discussion
Lunch (12:00-1:30)
Session 5 (Whitney COX, chair)
1:30-2:00 David SHULMAN “A (Sanskrit?) Theory of the Imagination from
Sixteenth-century Senji”
2:00-2:30 Rich FREEMAN “Caught in Translation: Kerala Maṇipravālam, from Tamil
through Sanskrit”
2:30-3:00 Discussion
Coffee (3:00-3:30)
Roundtable (David WASHBROOK, chair, 3:30-6:00)
B. D. CHATTOPADHYAYA
A. R. VENKATACHALAPATHY
Eivind KAHRS
Dominic GOODALL
6:00 Concluding remarks
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Dr. Whitney Cox
Department of the Languages and Cultures of South Asia,
School of Oriental and African Studies
Thornhaugh Street, Russell Square
London WC1H 0XG
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